Paul
Begg is not a novice in the Jack the Ripper case : he is the editor of
the Ripperologist, the specialized magazine completely devoted to the
Whitechapel murders and the Victorian Society, and the author of
several books and articles in the same field.

His last book,
Jack the Ripper : The Facts, follows the East End murders
chronologically, presenting not only the victims but also their family,
the eyewitnesses, the police, the government minister, the suspects...
all the people directly or indirectly involved in the most famous
criminal brief of all times.

Begg analyses all the murders
related to the Ripper, not only the "canonical" ones (Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols,
Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly)
but also previous and subsequent murders.

He also presents a
number of theories from the Masonic complot to the prince Victor Albert
to the painter Walter Sickert. Forged or strange documents, like the
Maybrick diary, are examined and evaluated.

According to Begg it is the London press that boosted the Ripper case and made it the first criminal myth of our times.

Abundant
notes and a bibliography complete what is to be the ultimate reference
about the most famous criminal of the modern era.